MDKSA-2004:034

Problem description

Shaun Colley discovered that two scripts distributed with MySQL, the
'mysqld_multi' and 'mysqlbug' scripts, did not create temporary files
in a secure fashion. An attacker could create symbolic links in /tmp
that could allow for overwriting of files with the privileges of the
user running the scripts.
The scripts have been patched in the updated packages to prevent this
behaviour.